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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · Sep 20

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Sep 19

Photo of a quickly scribbled comic on a yellow sticky note. Panel one, skull says "Show hole?" skeptically. Panel two, skull says "I'm nothing but hole!" pointing at its eyes. Panel three, skull is doing a big ol' belly laugh, text reads "Ack ack ack ack ack"

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Melody 🎃✨ @meloteaart.bsky.social · Sep 19

Burger 🍔

#art

Gouache painting of a white cat with black tipped ears that has a large big mac in its mouth on a green background. Sparkles surround the cat

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Sep 11

I love this so much. I am delighted, this is delightful.

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Ailantd Sikowsky @ailantd.com · Sep 11

No spacesheep would go to space without a life support system

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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fountain 2

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Sep 5

I was about to say breaking it within a day of launch had to be a record for you, but then I remembered the pre-launch demos you've broken.

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Tin Foil Awards @tinfoilawards.bsky.social · Sep 3

Can't find a single thing wrong with this...

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Aug 28

Butt frog is a masterpiece

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you for bringing me this delightful news 🥳

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Aug 20

I am enchanted by your shape choices for his scarring. It reads perfectly as scarring and as the distorted shadow of a hand.

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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · Aug 1

ᴛʜᴇ ɪᴄᴇ ɢᴜʏs

Character Concepts for Mr Freeze Goons. 2013

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Jul 28

Using LLMs to write code and announcing the end of programmers is like inventing a robot that can sometimes sweep up hair and the rest of the time sets the building on fire and announcing you've made stylists obsolete

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Jul 23

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoreo

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · Apr 25

The warlock’s tower of metal

Always love to put a bit of anachronistic stuff in my fantasy-setting work

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fences

A multi panel comic featuring Mariella, a mouse, and Rusty, a rat. They encounter the jaws of an unidentified predatory animal, and Rusty reacts with shock. The final panel zooms out to show an already-dead coyote corpse with its hindquarters stuck in a damaged barbed wire fence.

Dialogue:

Rusty: Mariella, get back!

Mariella: Hey! Feet on the ground! I want my feet on the ground! Can't you see? It's dead.

Rusty: My bad. Jeez, check out those teeth. Better him than us.

Mariella: I don't think any animal deserves to pass like that. Trapped, alone...

Page 2 of a comic. Rusty inspects the fence, looking wary, while Mariella contemplates it.

Dialogue:

Rusty: What's with the fence, anyways? We're not trespassing, are we? How worried should I be about some old farmer using us for target practice?

Mariella: No, no! Humans hardly ever come out here. These fences are just all over, since before granny was little. Humans must've put them here.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fences 2/3

A single image with Mariella's dialogue coming from her speaking off screen. The image is a landscape with an old pueblo village a the top of a hill with a road approaching it from below.

Mariella: Someone who came after the ones who built the stone villages, but before the ones who paved the roads black. They're strange, don't you think?

Three panels of landscapes including a mountain surrounded by aspens, a cliff leading into a river, and a cluster of precarious rugged cliffs, all with barbed wire fences. Mariella's dialogue from offscreen:

They don't trace mountains or canyons, forestrs or rivers or old trails. It's like someone just put a graph paper over a map and that's it. Now there's a bunch of lines where there used to be none. Whoever it was, they were certainly determined.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fences 3/3

The first panel depicts two pronghorns, stopped at a fence, while Mariella narrates offscreen: Animals with hooves can't follow the footsteps of their grandparents, it's harder for people too. Even that tricky coyote got caught.

The screen cuts back to Mariella, who is helping Rusty climb the fence.

Mariella: We can walk right underneath it. That makes us lucky, I suppose.

Rusty: It just keeps going?

Mariella: I've never seen the end. Maybe it goes way out to the ocean? I've never seen the ocean either. What do I know?

Rusty is helping Mariella off the top of the fence and onto a twisty juniper tree. The two then sit on the branch and watch the sunset.

Rusty: Don't say that. You teach me something every day.

Mariella: Well, the sun sets all the same no matter the side of the fence. It'll set once it rots to rust too.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · Jun 30

IT’S FUCKING CHESS

What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.

The Times headline: Transgender teenager’s German chess triumph prompts call for ban

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Jun 5

*original fiction

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Jun 5

Dunno if this is your speed or not buuuuuut:

reactormag.com/fictions/ori...

(Tor publishes a bunch of excellent original online for free and it is great)

Original Fiction - Reactor

reactormag.com

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CheerfulSpider @cheerfulspider.bsky.social · Jun 1

This is excellent. The earring is an especially nice touch